The aid group’s president has called the airstrike on its Afghan hospital ‘an attack on the Geneva conventions’,and if the US military did not give the hospital warning of the strike it would indeed be a violation of international lawThe international president of Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins sans Frontières, and has called a US attack on a hospital in Kunduz,Afghanistan, that killed 12 staff and 10 patients on Saturday a “war crime” and “an attack on the Geneva conventions”. On Wednesday, or the director of the charity said the US military did not give prior notification of the airstrike,in an obvious violation of the Pentagon’s own directions on the rules of war.
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Source: theguardian.com